“She was ranked first in defending the fleet from simulated attacks by enemy aircraft and in air refueling, and second in tactics to evade enemy aircraft and in combined familiarization with tactics and aircraft.”
LOL... Yeah, we all saw her skill level.
Had 58 successful carrier landings. Guess her skill level was good enough. Military training is dangerous. People die doing it.
https://www.cmrlink.org/data/sites/85/CMRDocuments/CMRRPT09-0695.pdf
Her training record was filled with downs and catastrophic errors that would have washed out anyone else. Blown out both main gear from ignored training, all kinds of head mistakes that would have got her killed had she been dropping actual bombs, had HUD set for landing while bombing, screwed up emergency procedures, and during hot fueling when she was supposed to shut down the engine on that side, she left it running endangering the ground crew..
Took 37 passes to carrier qual as opposed to the normal 20.
... those are just the highlights.
It’s a miracle she only killed herself. In a sense, Borda, Cheney and the Navy murdered her.
Unfortunately she didn’t rate so well on getting the plane back down on the flight deck. It’s a more important skill than the others.
It’s not like it’s 1944 any more:
“Captain, we lost 6 Hellcats and 8 Helldivers in the last op.”
“That’s ok. We are getting so many new ones this week that we’d have had to push those older ones over the side to make room for them.”
Tomcat and F-35s are a bit harder to replace.
Yeah, so funny. Did you even read the report at the link.
No idea what the hell has happened to FR posters. The incredible ignorance and more and more mocking of US military personnel is incredible.
She probably did all those things in a simulator.
If it took all those hours of flying for her to crash, she was way, way, way ahead of John McCain. (Not that that’s a particularly high bar.)
Actually, for reasons I forget, female bodies are better suited to G-forces pulled in combat flight.
Instead of ‘negging’ this Naval Aviator, read this part of the article:
Her correction disrupted the airflow into her Tomcat’s left engine, which caused it to fail. This was a known deficiency in that particular engine.
The engine had a KNOWN PROBLEM.
Skill and luck are no match for known failures.